Emma Allen-Vercoe is a British-Canadian Molecular biologist who is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph.
She moved to the Health Protection Agency for her graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of Martin Woodward.
[3][4] She worked with the biotechnology company Infors to create a bioreactor that can maintain biological samples in specific anaerobic atmospheres whilst her research team studying the constituents microbes.
[4] Allen-Vercoe isolates bacteria from human stool samples, places them in the so-called robo-gut and monitors their behaviour in precise conditions.
[11] She was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in 2019, which allowed her to study the influence of the gut microbiome on health and disease.